XQuery Contracts

XQuery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for XQuery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XQuery over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 664 835
Rank change year-on-year +96 +171 -117
Contract jobs citing XQuery 7 18 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.032% 0.003%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.054% 0.094% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 17 2
10th Percentile - £413 £588
25th Percentile - £603 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +52.94%
75th Percentile - £725 £681
90th Percentile - - £693
UK excluding London median daily rate - £425 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £21.50 -

All Programming Languages
UK

XQuery is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,939 19,124 31,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.05% 34.12% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,176 13,793 23,095
10th Percentile £350 £388 £388
25th Percentile £425 £461 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £660
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 433 488
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.60 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.95 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%

XQuery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing XQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for XQuery in the UK

XQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XQuery.

Daily rate trend for XQuery in the UK

XQuery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XQuery.

Hourly rate trend for XQuery in the UK

XQuery
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XQuery within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +87 7 - - 1
England +76 7 - - 3

XQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
1 7 (100.00%) Power BI
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Business Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Technical Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Technical Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) ETL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 7 (100.00%) Kanban
1 7 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 7 (100.00%) Project Management
1 7 (100.00%) Scrum
2 5 (71.43%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
5 1 (14.29%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) XPath
2 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
1 7 (100.00%) SAP